Setting up Unity Ads
Unity Ads is a video ad network for iOS and Android that can monetize your existing player base by showing ads. Unity Ads offers video ads that can be shown as either rewarded or non-rewarded placements. As the name suggests, rewarded ads will give the users a reward or incentive that will help them while playing the game. Before we can enable Unity Ads, we must first enable Unity’s Services suite. To activate Unity Services, you have to link your project to a Unity Services Project ID, which is how Unity can tell the difference between the different projects you are creating. So let’s see how to do that:
- Open the Services window by going to Window | General | Services or by pressing Ctrl + 0. This will open up the Unity Package Manager and will automatically select the Advertisement option:
Figure 7.1 – The Advertisement option in the Unity Package Manager
- Click on the Install button and wait...